"crowdsale" meaning in English

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          "text": "The most proven use case for smart contracts so far is custom tokens and crowdsales.",
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          "ref": "2020 November 7, Camila Russo, “Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum's 2014 Premine”, in CoinDesk:",
          "text": "The sale documents said that once the Ethereum blockchain launched and the premined ether was issued, miners would generate new ether initially at an annual rate of 26% of the amount of ether issued in the crowdsale – the issuance rate isn’t fixed and is capped at 18 million ETH minted per year.",
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        "(Internet) An online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency."
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